John Thune: “I remember when Democrats used to care about the effects of a government shutdown.”

We need to ensure that they do not face a third.

If you want to have a Republican Senate majority after the election — is not to have us turning fire on each other, but drawing contrasts with Democrats.

Try as we did on the House-passed version of it, we weren’t going to get there, and it was the small refineries issue.

But because Texas is such an expensive state, we’re going to need the president and his team to be engaged there and to be putting resources into that race.